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Doh! Replace "of" with "if" in the top line.
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Jonathan Shook <jshook@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is JSON import and export, of you want a form of external backup.
>
> No, you can't hook event subscribers into the storage engine. You can
> modify it to do this, however. It may not be trivial.
>
> An easier way to do this would be to have a boundary system (or dedicated
> thread, for example) consume data in small amounts, using some temporal
> criterion, with a checkpoint. If the results of consuming the data are
> idempotent, you don't have to use a checkpoint, necessarily, but some cyclic
> rework may occur.
>
> If your storage layout includes temporal names, it should be
> straightforward. The details how exactly how would depend on your storage
> layout, but it is not unusual as far as requirements go.
>
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> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Anthony Ikeda <
> Anthony.Ikeda@cardlink.com.au> wrote:
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>> We are currently looking at a distributed database option and so far
>> Cassandra ticks all the boxes. However, I still have some questions.
>>
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>> Is there any need for archiving of Cassandra and what backup options are
>> available? As it is a no-data-loss system I’m guessing archiving is not
>> exactly relevant.
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>> Is there any concept of Listeners such that when data is added to
>> Cassandra we can fire off another process to do something with that data?
>> E.g. create a copy in a secondary database for Business Intelligence
>> reports? Send the data to an LDAP server?
>>
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>>
>> Anthony Ikeda
>>
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